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slow on the phone is pleasure to welcome to the program
becky bond as she is the deep
we have uh... credo mobile and the political director of
credo action did i get there i dot e
uh... yeah right right out of under political director credo
i'm also a vice president also prevent a credo silver back which is my newest and
most favorite title horrible great i mean that's that's a great place to
start because
is um...
things that i know that uh...
that day that credo the pack was involved in was targeting uh... specific
house races
uh... two-party race is that
tell us about that
what at the funny thing happened you know credo etc really believe like like
you and your chest leader there should be no corporate money in politics
but when we saw what happened in twenty ten
with all the money from the cocoa others and i wonder if i call world
sweeping animals ran a court
screen esta republicans on the at least in in my lifetime in the house we knew
that we had to do something
soul that pre-election live
three million members and then we asked them should creo for me to attack to the
he summer most extreme
apollo that outfit as they were trying it
takeaway birth control and redefine rate
undergraduate united type i i'm ralph it's kind of changing the overwhelmingly
said yeah platform to attack a much defeat of the guys
so we target an emotional level and extreme
key player poke into the house incumbents
uh... and we
uh... and
set up in a maid named grassroots volunteer field operation
storefront offices in every district
uh... we hired organizer lucrative volunteers and we helped defeat
fine
alike and comments
and in the evening mining rights if i had told you a year ago
that come out with a few hundred thousand dollars
credo except operation and alan west district
and despite the reading thirteen million bucks
spinning thirteen nynex dependency that we could make the difference in that
race in charm and a former congressman alan last
you would think i was crazy that's exactly what we did
andy with some of the other highlights with dan lundgren
with a big money california uh... joe walsh
in illinois i have uh... mixed feelings just because we got so we used to have
so much tape from that guy
uh... decade building space shuttle of of uh...
some the ridiculous things that he was uh... espousing abut
and nice to see uh... these does uh...
matha rego and it was of the gelles crab act in um...
minnesota in
um... and entrained imprint new hampshire uh... again too
you have to keep quiet question actually came from your local tea party
organization
and it was elected in twenty ten of the freshman was the most
anti-woman member of congress
uh... and we were and i really effective operation up there
you know and the former congressman frank intact and we reelected overlook
antiwar members of congress from the former congress cal she of course will
really caught at work rita members had a big and that race
and we're really excited about
he laid out the door now i guess i should be set up front that i mean i
gotta get did before we brought to mind but obviously uh... credo is uh...
sponsoring this program
uh... and it is uh... you know from my perspective and i've told my audience
this multiple times now
but uh... yours is an organization that
i have uh... always ahead
uh... great admiration from and
of all of
the group's the organizations out there that are
uh... mobilizing
uh...
one of the things that i think
is most impressive about credo is
how independent
and uh... you guys are so mean it's not just a question of
you're targeting uh... with the with the pack
uh... tea party urs
you guys fight
or i mean i don't them by this a good bham loans market but not really in the
did you guys fight for
um... real progress of values
you manage to do it in anyway that is
i think distinct from other groups
and part of that has to do with with the way that you guys are funded we were you
just telus you know the the evil the evolution of credo from from working
assets
uh... to
to create
how you guys fund what you do and um... what are the actions that you take
outside of the pack is well
a great question it you know much fight you feel when your outside of the
mainstream media can actually really speak with the power networking thing
but uh... credo and how we find activision
uh... one million social change organization that instead of going to
big donors asking for money we're on the phone company
uh... and uh... proteins and the revenue crap phone company funda activism so we
alone we have to answer
uh... to our conscience
when we go out there and run campaigns we don't have anyone
a donor saying oh don't talk about that right now or
we can hold the president calvin we need to re-elect him we get to go out there
we get the fight for choice we get there
fight to stop the war as we get the fight to hold wall street countable no
matter what anyone fact uh... and the more that we work to beat except for one
thing what we believe in a home
uh... people in power cattle no matter what party he ran
abt the more people want to put a paper activism and become customers are credo
mobile
we started out twenty five years ago
and were started by a group of progressive economists
uh... buddhist didn't wanna make money but they wanted to
make sure that great progressive groups
not just do-gooder groups the progressive groups
they were fighting for choice fighting for
justice in central america
good hands
uh... of revenue stream done that way and be independent of all these
corporations are fighting bad things but there are no corporations when kids
thing so they
they found it in really good
company called working assets
uh... and for a long time about working assets violet the long distance
company and many of you may know is that
to one of the great thing about working assets was that just every month when
you paid your bill a portion of the money you gave the company wanted
great groups
and over the years suddenly become widow largest corporate contributor to planned
parenthood
began over a million dollars the rainforest action network
we find lots of great groups beautiful interest
now and long distance goes away
uh... we decided that what we need to really do is being
a local phone company with a few people have long distance whatever is good
mobile phones and so when we changed our bob moved into the moment as we change
our name to credo mobile
uh... and we've started doing the fierce kind of activism
uh... and uh... and getting our customers to switch their long distance
agreeable and that's where today
and so let's let's talk about some of the main uh...
i mean how does a breakdown with
with credo mobile uh... spends part of its profits in supporting uh... these
different groups and you can uh...
people can check it out uh... by having the to credo mobile
dot com forward slash majority and there you can see all the different uh...
actions that are taking place
uh... are or the where when
what credo has supported through the years very transparent
uh... in that respect
the pessimistic
it's going to get there i hope we can any prelude to the profits what we
didn't get a portion of our own of our revenue
somwhere lee everytime you know you pay your phone bill if you're agreeable
customer
part of that money
goes to the progressive non-profit there where
uh... supporting whether planned parenthood had or whether it's doctors
without borders or whether it's the ma christine now the money goes no matter
whether we're making a profit or not the portion of your phone bill goes directly
to those groups
we also learned you know what other companies are running marketing
campaigns
and we could have a part of a aren't quite clearly have a uh... a big team
that works
to organize our customers and
accrue action members to do progressive activism
and so uh... more some companies have marketing expenses
that would be ads
and what we do is we plow the money from the phone bills back into one of the
best online offline progressive organizing teams and the country
uh... and that's what made clear to the back possible
that's what uh... you may dark make a campaign to
stop a keystone excel pipeline
uh... run it
expert expelled if the money that comes in from the phone bills
that paper that said not only can rerun mutiny reacted in campaigns
which i'm sure a lot of your listeners have been a part of
but we also get over seven billion dollars
to our great progress of nonprofits angulated cut no we are the number one
corporate recruiter plan paranoia about something that we're
that we're really proud of it i thought they had cut short a possible
you know on uh... on monday i was interviewing digby from the blog
hullabaloo and we work
we were talking about how this is
fairly unique time
people of our ill could uh... though
those who've been working on the outside trying to add state input data
and and gain some leverage
uh... with house members in the uh... democratic caucus
uh... with the president and now that the president it has been re-elected
this is really eighty ke time n one i think where outside groups are empowered
she mentioned uh... the credo among the other
uh... progressive organizations
that are really trying to leverage
peoplepower
to uh... to to force instead from the
uh... stiffen the spines of
particularly uh... that the democratic caucus in the house as we enter into
this
uh... fiscal cliff
whatever however you want a branded fiscal austerity bomb
uh... this uh... potential grand bargain
uh... the debt ceiling fight
what do you guys doing uh... right now in terms of design know that back in
even if his earliest march
you guys were pressuring steny hoyer uh... and
exposing his position where he's putting things like medicare
and social security on the table into indigo she asians with the republicans
yet that that's where we're at what like you wanted me maybe we believe in alpine
model car we think change comes from the outside
we don't think that if we walk into the office if any lawyer on capitol hill
yet it will be able to make an inside dealing and he'll fight for everything
that we believe that mike no custom medicare medicaid social security
benefits will come
we will hear the politicians in washington d_c_ whether republican or
democrat they only do the things most of them that we make them do because
they're under enormous pressure
from the right
into when you look at the company like a_t_t_
one the biggest
campaign contributors to congress in that certainly the biggest contribute to
a member of the people of the caucus
but we have you instead of
giving money to a non-politician did meet organized millions of people i want
to speak out at moments like this well if anything it's just google often you
know steny hoyer and also a christian holland unique guys make comment in the
new still taking flight
you know i think we should consider a here so there's a carrier harmonies
orkut n holland recently uh... who's the head of the ok commercial campaign
committee
he really teddy i think that you know
at first when not necessarily for cutting benefits i think that benefits
for medicare medicaid the ought to be on the table
and when you guys anything like this
louis immediately she got an email
bump you are pre-election members
in their district
and we pay we want you to give
stunning lawyer a phone call
acquitted in march
and we played in a phone call and tell him that you up
absolutely opposed
listing on the table
we generate about five thousand calls not just from what your sister company
for leadership come accross the country
uh... team and saying fifty you cannot talk about putting the stuff on the
table reasonably could somehow in just a couple weeks ago
uh... said something about them that's all i'll be on the table in an interview
with the wall street journal
and we had a bunch of people who can't recall and and let me just tell you the
angry colleague akriel hdlc
from is judge ito staff
saying that we missed characterized it only if you read back the quantity theta
thingy but that's not what he meant and we could you know if it's not working
for your people attending a lecture
we think that crystal ball in jamaica public statement saying that
you absolutely no beaufort any bill that would contain cuts to medicare medicaid
for security benefits and that you know we will have to make that statement
initial word akikko phone calls coming phillips our job to make people in power
uncomfortable and we can washington d_c_ on both sides of just the way too
uh... abt to give away things that people in their district hold dear like
medicare medicaid so scary benefits aware
you were at war with our people want to fight to the end on that soon you we
don't believe any compromise at the place we start which i guess we believe
that you say what you want to win
and then played for anything where you are at the annual compromise is
beginning to happen that's what we do you know
i have a company that's why i remembers why do we hear
it's our job
to help fight org
uh... the progressive values not be in the back room and in and make a terrible
crunch prize
uh... uh... where the people who had been off with a powerful i gotta say
that
not only do i love
year u
uh... credo
folks were able to force
uh... than holland's office to call you but i love the fact that you can talk
about it
because he's so often in this is this is
that you know this is sort of thing that i've been trying to communicate to
people is that so often with these groups they'll do an action like this
they will get that call and they can talk about the fact that they get back
all because it's somehow it's that relationship is with the leverages
but here it is just eighties literally you're putting their feet under the
fired it doesn't make a difference if things go through that you're talking
about its because it continues to put the comp
compounds
uh... that pressure and that's one of things i really appreciate now
which is got a couple minutes here so i got a couple of uh... questions in terms
of
the phone service
uh... but also we've had great great response from uh... our listeners
already uh...
and ranging from
sam here bad marketer because you didn't tell us that uh... the majority report
uh... promo people get a three hundred and fifty dollar
uh... credit to buy out our existing contact them to do a better job of that
one of the things that people want to ask me about was
uh... are you guys gonna get the iphone
right now your career talking to me on a uh...
uh... samsung galaxy sounds great uh... some people want to know about the
iphone
what's uh... we
to chance
old so uh... so right now we don't have that i can i do not know what the future
ho
you know right now i'm going to be on the couch history which in turn
which is an awesome phone
uh... uh... uh... you know he probably knows what did i do have you read in the
newspaper about what's going on all apple at some point you know i have felt
personally we get that i found unrealistic but my enterococci at st
in part because first off the faster phone and it's a better phone but also
because i've become addicted to swipe now i don't know if you're using a
little bit jet set
kind i found them and i haven't and that's all i can be viewed it as an
activist callously he thinks he can write you know
faster with the warning and then just white
well arafat's appointment on-site on public trans then he can admit keyboard
uh... news
of his uh... of his avid knack for and vote i think that this challenge myself
and i think that uh...
but the galaxy at three million benefit often phone uh... and uh... and also
endure a debit open-source platform is one weathers actually more innovation
i'd going into it so so we're right now we don't have the iphone i don't know
the future holds
uh... but i know that i'm sticking with my elbow if i dot e alright now you can
ask you a one other question that was brought up
and uh...
i ask is with the understanding that you know look there's no there there's no
perfect solution
when you're talking about uh...
commerce in some way
to avoid uh...
uh... you know way
uh... to get into a situation where everything is sort of perfectly aligned
uh... with your values but one of the the things that people asked about
now granted a_t_ and t_'s is given
nearly a million bucks to uh... two party candidates i'm not which just is
just sort of shocking in a way
um...
what what
the things that people of br abroad up is that
to relationship with sprint which is the the network were credo works on
is not unionize is that the case at what's the story with the credo in
unions
so that the only carried out on union core course on core formal is a in p
uh... andy lipschitz it's a really competent for slowing million kurds
people
to consider their values i think the most important them when they harmonic
any their money whether it's on the phone service including the you know i'm
for a new thing so we really applaud your listeners for interrogating units
division
uh... it's it's really complicated uh... uh... if it really company when you look
at the record on if you care about labor issues
creat supports the employee free choice act credo have been organizing our
members in indiana fight the right wing i'd like for power grab ironweed sent
um... we've checked at out every e-mail that an absolute by the a_f_l_c_i_o_ on
this move terrible michigan power grab uh... you know eighteen p was one of the
top can contribute to scott walker when he ran for governor of confidence uh...
an eighteen t uh... atop attributes the republican governors association
anything he obviously didn't give it to the people a caucus
uh... credo again you know we support workers rights we find groups like jobs
with justice the farm labor organizing committee
uh... we work with nike raphael u_n_ april ko when they're in a waiver fight
you we will be there when i get our members in gates
um but it's true that spread to the is the is a vendor that we use for our
network uninspected non-unionized a work force
and we we support trade unionization we support labor rights
uh... but that is a but that is a difference
uh... with a_t_t_ we think that the uh... money that eighteen he pours into
the right wing
but the fact that eighteen t_v_ cop
i'm supporter and i'll get elected you know scott walker wisconsin making these
things outweigh the fact that some of their labor force using expedia and we
believe that that we have a very strong commitment to labor rights and anyone
l_a_ boarded a ship actually work about someone who dishes
i think what kelly would would would tell you you know that dot credo is a
strong supporter of wayward appreciate that
knew that
you know it's it's it is a complicated thing you wearing different things and
you know frankly um... i it's the with the work for you guys are doing i think
is uh... really in many respects unparalleled in terms of bringing this
outside uh...
uh... outside forces uh...
to uh... uh... to bear upon
uh... our politicians and holding them accountable and so uh...
i want to remind people
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stupid phones i guess i dunno paul uh...
also phones
um... anime i'm really it's it didn't really guide
i feel great about this uh... relationship back yeah i really
appreciate what uh...
uh... credo uh... sponsoring the the program
where huge stand in the jury reportedly jack lead a kind of
you know in-depth information about what's going on in washington d_c_ in
the state of the progress of fights that
that people you know don't have access to any if we can help you'll get more
lectures for your show and help support your work nights it's a really wonderful
marriage of two great progressive forces so we're really happy to be with you a
majority report great thank you's credo
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first for the special uh... this special offer becky thanks so much for joining
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